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China Town back to how it once was. Quarter of court aristocrats, merchants and clerks, from time immemorial been fenced off from the rest of Moscow's ramparts, once again cut off from the city. Fence-remake, as before in czarist times, to separate the country and city from the main bureaucratic quarters. Clerks of the presidential administration and the aristocrats of other agencies finally get back physically isolated from human space.

Today, a piece of China-town in the borders between Ilinka Varvarka and still remains open to pedestrians. In early autumn, the area was still open to motor vehicles. But more recently, barriers, blocking the free passage, emerged in the alleys of St. Nicholas, and Nikitnikova Ipatiev by Varvarka. Limited movement in Fish Lane. Together with barriers appeared booth with time and metal gates.

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I must say, in connection with the closing of China-town will suffer not only a tourist attraction of Moscow. In question would be the existence of several parishes. And the most important thing in this historic district - the Holy Trinity Church in Nikitniki. Temple - one of the few architectural monuments of Moscow, the potential candidates for heritage sites by UNESCO.

- This is the greatest monument to his appearance had been born "great style» XVII century - uzoroche - says Rakhmatullin. - The richest merchant Nikitniki built the temple as a house-and at the same time as the parish, as the parish was the servants. Under Soviet rule in the church was a branch of the Historical Museum, restored unique murals of the XVII century. And now access to the church may be closed.

fully here.